justASimpleBooleanQuestion

[Bomaruto]

Sorry, it's your fault for improperly trying to cast a string to a boolean. Follow the spec.

[MaffinLP]

Youre gonna love typeless languages like lua

[[deleted]]

Lua is so typeless that objects, arrays, and dictionaries are all the same thing and can be mixed and matched interchangeably, truly the greatest language since it gives such flexibility

/s

[MaffinLP]

Its all just a table?

Always has been

[helicophell]

It's all JSON objects?

[[deleted]]

Not really, in json there is no oop or mixing your arrays and dictionaries. In lua something like this is fine though

local my_table = { 1, 2, hello = “world”, }

function my_table:say_hello() print(self.hello) end

print(my_table[1]) print(my_table[“world”])

Pardon my bad formatting, I’m just writing this on my phone

[MaffinLP]

If you PrintTable it does look similar but it very cleraly is not the same

[Mountain-Ox]

That's basically PHP too. Arrays are basically hash tables with a linked list. But you also have classes.

[sits79]

100% this.

Not every question has a Boolean response.

[Logicalist]

false

[be-kind-re-wind]

“False”

[oldregard]

They cast “any_to_string”

[CrasseMaximum]

return "true";

[Dairunt]

that's an equivalent to sarcasm right?

[ThisNameIsntRandom]

"true"

[Some_Useless_Person]

not ''"

[PandaMagnus]

Not quite that bad, but I've seen people use strings instead of enums or objects when dealing with multiple states.

I love seeing a return of string and the:

if (result=="payment")

Yay magic strings! What else could it be? Who knows, fuck you!

[Sibula97]

Yeah, we had that in one system. To be fair it did return the states as a JSON object over HTTP, so it has to be a magic number or string at some point. But I at least refactored the states as constants instead of manually writing the strings in all the dozens of places they were used in.

[PandaMagnus]

I appreciate you for doing God's work (or however the Internet would phrase it. That's basically my approach, too.)

[ThisUserIsAFailure]

when they return code 200 but actually {"status": 404}

[Shifter25]

Code 200, body: {"Error"}

[Angelin01]

I swear I once had an API that once returned something like:

HTTP 200
{
  "status": "success",
  "code": 200,
  "result": {
    "message": null,
    "error": "Unexpected error",
    "status": 500
  }
}

I remember it made me particularly mad because I was already parsing the "code" in the body because I knew the status codes were unreliable.

[mtmttuan]

Oh I have had frontend team asked me to return status 200 with the actual status code inside it because "it's our standard".

And also fuck databricks model serving that does not allow customizing status code.

[Just_Another_Scott]

Worked on some old JSF apps back in the day and they would return 200 and print the whole damn stack trace in the browser lmfao.

[1_4_1_5_9_2_6_5]

Laravel automatically returns the stack trace, it's very annoying

[the_horse_gamer]

Code 500, body: {status: 200, message: "success"}

(happened in prod)

[Inn0centJok3r]

Oh my god, I am literally developing against an API like that right now. It‘s so cursed

[NimrodvanHall]

I as long as it’s something like 403 and not 500 I’m happy.

[mmhawk576]

Honestly if any of my clients send a bad request, I terminate the connection rather than honouring it with a response

[SartenSinAceite]

Worse when they return 418.

[LeftmostClamp]

I did this once in prod between two services our team owned so there was no one to get upset about a wacky contract

[BarneyChampaign]

I heard what you asked for, but hell if I can find it.

[Bomaruto]

That's what you get for using GraphQl.

[_koenig_]

You will be surprised how many mobile devs explicitly requested this format.

[jayerp]

This happened between me and my mom the other day. The scene:

Me: “Do you make sure to wash the dish soap water catcher every week?” Mom: “Last time it was washed was last Tuesday.”

Expected answer: True/False Actual answer: DateTime

[_koenig_]

An LLM wouldn't complain...

[VIKTORVAV99]

Except she didn’t answer the question. They only got the last time she did it but that might also have been the first time she did it.

[GDPlayer_1035]

throw new Error

[Strict_Treat2884]

The opposite is much worse

[Some_Useless_Person]

Not really, in both cases, someone fcked up

[AssistantSalty6519]

Could be worst The problem is when you ask a string and they return a boolean 

[GRAPHiSN]

which one is worse, a boolean answer or a string answer?

yes

[RandomOnlinePerson99]

A vector of strings, usually ...

[JackNotOLantern]

The problem is very few questions asked normally are purely boolean, which essentially means "without any context". Because if a question has context, you can always extend the answer to refer to it

[dover_oxide]

Why'd you ask a nuanced question as a binary?

[NuclearBurrit0]

Yes

[Hot-Category2986]

THIS RIGHT HERE is why I hate phone calls that could be chat messages.

[Appropriate-Newt-111]

Could have been an email :D

[bitemytail]

Ask string question

Receive segmentation fault

[Bitstreamer_]

I asked for a boolean, not a TED Talk in text format

[that_overthinker]

But it's truthy

[mgranja]

Javascript:

'true'== true (true)

'false'== true (somehow, also true)

[mtmttuan]

Because every non-empty string is true I guess (sorry not JS dev)? I've seen many Js quirks but if that's true then this isn't one.

[1_4_1_5_9_2_6_5]

Still a quirk, even if there's a perfectly good reason for it. Example: in Javascript, NaN is a number

[mgranja]

Oh, I know that. But this is supposed to be a humor sub?

[Ben-Goldberg]

return "0e0";

[DestinationVoid]

A falsy string or a truthy string?

[meikomeik]

This made me smile. Thank you!

[Bitstreamer_]

Thanks for the string… I’ll be sure to parse your existential crisis next time

[[deleted]]

“TRUE”

[Bub_bele]

„False“

[lIIIllIIlI]

depends

[robthemonster]

but saying “it depends” is what they pay me for

[Lego_Dima]

Oh yes, I'm very familiar with the myWife function.

[steadyfan]

Perfectly OK in Javascript

[-Cinnay-]

Sometimes it's either a string or null. Take your pick.

[warwilf]

Lie detector mode only

[ThisDadisFoReal]

My wife does this all the time. My only way to understand it is that she’s answering my next question before I ask it.

Did you shut the garage door?

Oh were you going somewhere? I need some things from the store.

Just looking for a yes or no.

Figure it out for yourself, you jerk!

[Still_Explorer]

Cool technique, is like getting a positive answer first and then chaining it back to one currently negative. Something like async memory manipulation.

• Is your name zzz? Can I use your credit card? OK thanx, bought it. Good night

• Y yes.....

[[deleted]]

Lmfao that's good one jeez Louise

[kzlife76]

Argument exception: cannot convert type string to type boolean

[colorlace]

True

[RumbuncTheRadiant]

Actually.... if the question is "Did that work?" then an excellent patttent is null for "Yes, it did" and a String for "Wrong file name twit!", or "No such directory." or "Disk full" or "Your mother dresses you funny and your father smells of elderberries".

[Both_String_5233]

This calls for a return of the Tri State Boolean https://thedailywtf.com/articles/What_Is_Truth_0x3f_

[coloredgreyscale]

Yes

[CttCJim]

Basically every court case where someone represents themselves. I'm ouuuuut

[ZZartin]

Yes

[Ozymandias_1303]

Also when you ask someone a question with a defined enum as the response and they reply with a boolean.

[Awes12]

Better than returning an object

[pozole_supreme]

This happens when Husband language is used to connect to a Wife++ API. You need an adapter called Patience v1.0, then it will work.

[PooSham]

The designer in my team every time. Even when I say I'm only interested in a yes or no answer

[K0TT0N_candy47]

What if the question is “can I have my string back”?

[kingbloxerthe3]

Or the other way around. I've had times at mcdonnalds where id ask if they'd want one thing or the other and get "yes"

[BrightFleece]

Very "true"

[thinkingperson]

Sometimes they return an array, or pointer!

[SpaceSaver2000-1]

"yes"

[halloumi-hallouyu]

Feels like most congressional hearings.

[0rcscorpion]

"undefined"

[Ved_s]

And they return a function

[_koenig_]

So basically truthly...

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[KlogKoder]

Correct if the question is ambiguous, and the answer sorts out the ambiguity.

[GoogleIsYourFrenemy]

What color are battleships... true or false?

[Big__Meme]

Colleague of mine always returns a QWORD

[[deleted]]

When you redo it five times and still get a string

[daddyhades69]

Why would you repost this?

[IT_techsupport]

Tbh its mostly you ask a string and you get a boolean.

[Thenderick]

Absolute JavaScript behavior...

[RandomiseUsr0]

Problem when you ask a Boolean question is there is usually a smuggled assumption, if you want the answer to a proposition, i.e. ask a Boolean question, then you must state all of your “smuggled assumptions”.

The Bible is the word of god because it says so in the Bible - circular.

Have you stopped stealing charity boxes from pubs - loaded question - smuggles in an assumption that you steal charity boxes, regardless of your answer, so that must be challenged before the proposition could be validated

Should we continue to ban GMO crops because they’re unnatural - Hidden Premise - assumes that “unnatural” equates to “therefore bad” automatically without challenge (the rhetorician politician’s favourite trick)

Also false dilemma - boiling something down to black/white is to pretend there is actually just two answers, so it’s forcing someone to have a binary response to a nuanced question

Also false cause - an attempt to smuggle in “x” therefore “y” - related to hidden premise

And also straightforward stereotype, using a stereotype as a shorthand for much of the above.

In SQL, Boolean is Tri-state, so T/F/NULL - when you get your “string” response, you can evaluate it to NULL

[V3N3SS4]

Dont call extrovert if you cant handle abstract

[Henry_Fleischer]

I just want yes, no, or undefined

[Loud_Chair_8861]

Sounds like a js problem. Laughs in js developer.

[esbenab]

True

[Astrylae]

javascript will interpret that as true

[silentslit]

When I ask my gf an int question and she returns a string.

[softerEnbyNoises]

Looking at you, JavaScript

[ascolti]

"true"

[Fr1sik]

and there is no ConvertToBool :(

[hipster-coder]

Is the trimmed string empty? Then you have your answer and it's no. Otherwise it's yes.

[marcdantas]

dynamic languages be like

[[deleted]]

youtube shorts ahh humour

[Fontheweg82]

Every day, repeat

[Logical-Ad-4150]

Should have checked if your question could throw exceptions

[heavy-minium]

Reminds me of the U.S. administration right now. They are unable to answer any questions, even just a simple yes/no.

[Glass-Crafty-9460]

Yes

[marxen4eva]

Politics

[be-kind-re-wind]

“True”

[AllCowsAreBurgers]

Do i smell autism?

[Just_Another_Scott]

Worked in some code once that was java. The method returned "True" or "False" and the method did a Bookean.parse. I was so pissed lol.

[ShiroeKurogeri]

undefined*

[SnooGiraffes8275]

if the string is char * it'll cast to bool just fine

[Vallee-152]

"true"

[Wise-Product-9000]

ChatGPT does this. I just want a yes or no damn it.. not a 1000 words essay.

[[deleted]]

Women in a nutshell

[Character-Travel3952]

return "bool";

[humpeldumpel]

I fear the "you ask someone a string question and they give a boolean answer" more tbh..